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For the people: Couples meet with a measure of safety, the health conscious take in the fresh air, dog owners walk their canines and cultural groups perform before the verdant backdrop of Cubbon Park. Photo: K. Murali Kumar
A place to see and be seen in
Cubbon Park is not just a vital lung space, but also a social one
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Putting the ‘garden’ in Garden City
With its formal, often symmetrical landscaping and its many straight avenues lined with a single tree species — such as the mast tree avenue between the Queen’s and King’s statues — Cubbon Park ca...
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The best days are behind the Fish Canteen
Cubbon Park has always meant different things to different people. To some, it is a colonial relic, to others a botanical treasure trove. A lovers’ glade to some and joggers’ park to others.
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A smashing initiative
17 people with disabilities sweat it out over a game of tennis every weekend at Cubbon Park
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Gullies over the high street
But there are other jewels hidden within this rabbit warren of lanes named after prominent personalities from the Tamil Mudaliar community who once dominated this area.
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Bangalore,
April 4, 2013
There’s method to the madness
It may be the less glitzy cousin of the brand-heavy Brigade Road, but Commercial Street is easily the sworn shopaholics’ most preferred destination. ‘Com Street’ is easily Bangalore’s an...
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Bangalore,
March 29, 2013
Chocolate or ketchup?
If you are a resident of Jayanagar 3rd Block, you may have seen customers milling about at this eatery tucked away on a corner of 8 Main. Hari’s Super Sandwich, a popular hangout in the area, prove...
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Bangalore,
March 29, 2013
A locality that flexes its muscles
The afternoon sun is bearing down, but astonishingly, it isn’t the air-conditioned cafés of south Bangalore that are packing in the crowds this weekend: the young folk of Jayanagar would, it seems,...
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Bangalore,
March 29, 2013
Cycling is serious business here
Cycling may not be the preferred mode of transport in Jayanagar, even if it does have dedicated cycle lanes, but the folks at Bums on the Saddle, a bike shop in 4th Block, have helped make the tran...
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Bangalore,
March 29, 2013
He enjoys playing the numbers game
He loves number-crunching and if it resonates with cricketing history, his day is made. Veteran cricket statistician H.R. Gopala Krishna is a regular at the media enclosures in the Chinnaswamy Sta...
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It isn’t just the flowers traditionally used in poojas that are sold around K.R. Market in the old city
